Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor AdornoBecause thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
Theodor AdornoFascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor AdornoKitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.
Theodor Adorno